Hello everyone, I have just bought a 1974 Lotus Elan +2S 130/5 (carnival red). It is a Newcastle car, having spent its life from 1974 to 1989 (as a Lotus Owners North East member's car, it has the sticker to prove it, a Doctor's car), then when its tax expired in June 1989, it said 'goodbye' to real life and ended up with 2 separate owners in two separate garages for 26 years!! It is now mine, needs some gentle miles (on modern pot hole roads) and I am looking forward to it very very much, yippee.As you can guess I will be boring you all with questions about its history. It has only done 14250 miles (it has the MOT's to prove it). I am David from Ledbury in Herefordshire, a previous from my youth owner of a 1969 Lotus Elan S4 SE yellow convertible (black badge model) and a 1973 Lotus Elan +2S 130/5 (Light green, then BMW Graphite black reg. RYN533L does it still exist!!). I much later owned a 1995 Lotus Elan M100 which came from Durham, it was nothing but trouble and dull too. I will be quiet.